HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Apple M5 (iPad)
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Frequency
2360 MHz
4600 MHz
Cores
8
10
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
512 KB
320 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
L3 cache
0
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Process
10 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
5.5
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TDP
9 W
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Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
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GPU frequency
768 MHz
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Execution units
12
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Shading units
18
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Vulkan version
1.3
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OpenCL version
2.0
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DirectX version
12
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
153 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
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Storage type
UFS 2.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
2752 x 2064
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
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Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
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Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
5
7
Bluetooth
4.2
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
AI
NPU
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Apple Neural Engine
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
355,946
3,155,649
Geekbench 6
386
4,175
Geekbench 6
1,377
15,577
FP32 (float)
331
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